Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Feb. 3, 1914 – John Klassen’s body was found frozen in Stone Lake. Before leaving home he remarked, “If I do not get work today, I am going out where my boy is.” His son drowned in Stone Lake last summer.
Feb. 3, 1964 – 50 percent of New York City’s black and Puerto Rican public school students stayed home today in a protest against racial segregation in the nation’s largest school system.
Feb. 3, 1989 – NIPSCO’s earnings are up 166 percent.
Feb. 3, 2004 – Of all the flags thrown in Sunday’s Super Bowl, CBS faces the greatest penalty for exposing kids to rough lyrics and, you know.